Volume 3: Mesa Verde/ Aztec Ruins
According to the U.S. National Park Service, Mesa Verde National Park features 5,000 known archeological sites, including 600 spectacular cliff dwellings. The name is Spanish for “Green Table,” and the area was inhabited by the Ancestral Pueblo people from AD 600 to 1300, over 700 years. (source) Mesa Verde, as well as nearby Aztec Ruins National Monument located in Aztec, New Mexico, are an important link to the Native American past of the region and provide significant economic stimulus, with well over half a million people visiting each year. (source)
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- Point Lookout Dominates the Entrance to Mesa Verde National Park
- View of Point Lookout at the entrance to Mesa Verde National Park.
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- Point Lookout Dominates the Entrance to Mesa Verde National Park
- From an altitude of 7000 feet at the Park Entrance a splendidly engineered highway climbs some 1500 feet to the top of the Mesa.
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- Point Lookout and Entrance to Mesa Verde Nat'l Park, Colo.
- View of Point Lookout on the way to Mesa Verde National Park and the road that leads to the park entrance.
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- Point Lookout and Mesa Verde Highway
- Picture of the Mesa Verde Highway with a mountain in the background which is the Point Lookout. There are tall trees that are on each side of the road that each cast a shadow across the road. There some small clouds in the sky. The postcard is sepia toned.
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- Point Lookout and Road Leading to Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado
- Point Lookout in the background with trees on hills on both sides of the scorecard. There is the road that leads to Mesa Verde with the welcome to Mesa Verde sign in the foreground. with a fence coming out of it on both sides. The grass is green and the sky is blue with some clouds.
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- Point Lookout and Sleeping Ute - San Juan Basin, Colo.
- Photo of Point Lookout and Sleeping Ute at Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado. View is from the San Juan Basin.
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- Point Lookout dominates the entrance to Mesa Verde National Park
- View of the Sun Temple ruin at the entrance to Mesa Verde National Park. There is a tree of the left side of the postcards with some trees on the right. It is nice and sunny with some clouds in the background.
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- Point Lookout near Mesa Verde National Park
- View of Point Lookout on your way to Mesa Verde National Park.
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- Point Lookout, Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado
- View of Point Lookout on the way to Mesa Verde National Park. View of car inbound on the highway the leads to the entrance of the park.
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- Point Lookout.
- A black and white photograph of Vista of Point Lookout in Mesa Verde National Park. A tall mesa is the center of the photo, and assumed to be Point Lookout. Trees and shrubs are visible, and a paved road can be seen as well.
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- Point lookout and government automobile road to the ruins
- View of Point Lookout at Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado. Photo is taken from the view of the Government Automobile Road looking onto the ruins.
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- Pottery, Mesa Verde National Park, Colo.
- Photograph of pottery found in Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado.